Courtier and Lady with a Young Woman Poling a Boat 1796 Kubo Shunman Japanese This scene evokes the famous scene from Chapter 51, A Boat Cast Away” (Ukifune), of the The Tale of Genji. The setting is the New Year, the beginning of spring in the lunar calendar, when the plum trees are about to burst into bloom, the warbler is poised to sing its first song (hatsune) of the year, and pine saplings—ready to be plucked—for the Ne no hi (First Day of the Rat) ceremony adorn the shores of a winding stream. At a tumultuous point in her life Ukifune finds herself falling in love with competing suitors, Kaoru and Niou. The far-and-away most commonly depicted scene set a bit later in spring after a heavy snowfall when the moon is in the morning sky and Niou joins Ukifune for boat ride on the Uji river to the Isle of Oranges (Tachibana no kojima) accompanied, according to the tale, by her maid and a boatman. In most depictions, however, the maid and boatman are omitted from the scene to focus on

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Courtier and Lady with a Young Woman Poling a Boat 1796 Kubo Shunman Japanese This scene evokes the famous scene from Chapter 51, A Boat Cast Away” (Ukifune), of the The Tale of Genji. The setting is the New Year, the beginning of spring in the lunar calendar, when the plum trees are about to burst into bloom, the warbler is poised to sing its first song (hatsune) of the year, and pine saplings—ready to be plucked—for the Ne no hi (First Day of the Rat) ceremony adorn the shores of a winding stream. At a tumultuous point in her life Ukifune finds herself falling in love with competing suitors, Kaoru and Niou. The far-and-away most commonly depicted scene set a bit later in spring after a heavy snowfall when the moon is in the morning sky and Niou joins Ukifune for boat ride on the Uji river to the Isle of Oranges (Tachibana no kojima) accompanied, according to the tale, by her maid and a boatman. In most depictions, however, the maid and boatman are omitted from the scene to focus on

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